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Palo Alto Unified approves 2024–25 budget assumptions as contract talks continue
Summary
The board approved 2024–25 budget assumptions that embed the district's current offers for teacher and classified pay and assume $24 million in new impacts, while public commenters and board members urged faster action on staffing, higher starting wages and use of reserves to retain educators.
The Palo Alto Unified School District Board of Education on April 23 approved budget assumptions for 2024–25 that incorporate the district’s latest proposals in ongoing contract negotiations and project a roughly $24 million fiscal impact for next year.
Chief Business Officer presentation: The district updated revenue and expenditure estimates and highlighted new investments and staffing changes: launch of a Palo Alto program at Foothill for 2024–25, a projected net decline of 2.0 classroom FTE because of enrollment trends, the addition of 2.6 FTE secondary TOSAs (math, world language and humanities), two classroom teachers for Baron Park’s conversion to a two‑strand school and instructional leads for each high school. The presentation…
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